Cape York Peninsula, on the Alice River Goldfield. Gold was found here by John Dickie in 1901. Aboriginal name meaning Sandy Place. It was suggested by Dickie as a name when a store and orPostal Receiving Service was established there.

Source:Martinuzzi, A. L. Places and after whom they are named. Aboriginal names and their meanings. Innisfail and District Historical Society. Vol. 7, 1991, p. 13

Ince Point

Torres Strait. Wednesday Island. Named after Lieutenant Ince of HMS Fly who sailed here in 1844

Source:Nicholson, Ian. Via Torres Strait, 1996, p. 154

Coordinates:10 30 S 142 21 E

Indefatigable Entrance

Torres Strait. Named after the Indefatigable commanded by Captain M. Bowles who was in the area in 1815. It is not known if he used this entrance

Source:Nicholson, Ian. Via Torres Strait, 1996, p. 388

Industrial Avenue

Cairns. Stratford. So named because this road runs through an industrial precinct

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Ingham

Named in 1878 after William Bairstow Ingham, an early sugar planter who settled in the district in 1873 and was the owner of the Ings (sugar) Plantation. He owned a small paddle steamer, Louisa in 1876 and moved to the Cairns district later that year. He was murdered in New Guinea in 1879

Cairns. Mooroobool. Named after William Bairstow Ingham, an early sugar planter who settled in the Ingham district in 1873 and was the owner of the Ings (sugar) Plantation. He came to Cairns in August 1876 and set up the first sawmill in Cairns in May 1877 & sold out in 1878. He owned the steamers Louisa and Fitzroy. He was murdered in New Guinea in 1879 after being appointed in 1878 the agent at Port Moresby for the Queensland Government.

Originally known as Cowal Creek which was apparently a name given by the Jardines. The Cowal Creek Aboriginal settlement established here in 1913 was known as Cowal Creek after the river. It is now known as Injinoo, meaning to sit, i.e., to sit where they would settle. The name was changed from Cowal Creek to Injinoo in about 1988 at the request of the community. In the past Cowal Creek was also known as Cold Creek by the locals because of the temperature of the water in the creek

Source:Personal communication with David Byrne

Coordinates:10 54 S 142 20 E

Inkster's Passage

Hinchinbrook Channel. Named after Alexander Inkster of the Noah, who discovered this passage in the Hinchinbrook Channel in 1864

Cairns. Westcourt. Probably named for Captain W. Innes, who commanded the Zeus to ply river traffic to Smithfield in the late 1870s. He was an auditor for the elections for the Cairns Board held on 17 July 1880.

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Innisfail

Originally named by George Dalrymple in 1873 as Nind's Junction Camp or Nind's camp after Philip Henry Nind (1831-1896), a settler of the Logan District who made his camp where Innisfail now stands & who joined Dalrymple's party at Dunk Island. He later returned south, becoming MLA for Logan, 1873-1875. Junction Point then became the accepted usage for the settlement, then Johnstone River. In 1883 the town was surveyed & named Geraldton after Thomas H. Fitzgerald, who in 1880 planted the area's first sugar cane. The town was re-named Innisfail in 1910 due to confusion of names with Geraldton in Western Australia, after a Russian cargo ship bound for the Western Australian town arrived in Innisfail! Named after Thomas H. Fitzgerald's home on his sugar plantation and his sugar mill which was named Innisfallen after his home in Ireland.

Torres Strait. Endeavour Strait. Named after G.H. Inskip, a member of the ship Bramble in 1849

Source:Nicholson, Ian. Via Torres Strait, 1996, p. 186

Inspection Hill

Gulf of Carpentaria. Sweers Island. Named by Matthew Finders of the Investigator on 17 November 1802. As per his diary entry for this date; "The coast to the southward was scarcely visible from the mast head, but land was seen to extend westward from the hill; in order to gain a better knowledge of what this land might be, I went on shore, taking instruments with me. The hill proved to be a mass of calcareous rock ... The hill obtained the name of Inspection Hill

Source:http://mpec.sc.mahidol.ac.th/discaust/NORTH2.HTM

Coordinates:17 07 S 139 37 E

Investigator's Road

Gulf of Carpentaria, between Bentinck & Sweers Islands. Named by Matthew Flinders of the Investigator after his ship which passed through the channel on 21 November 1802. As per Flinder's diary entry for this date: "In Torres' Strait, the ship had leaked, but no anchorage, adapted to the purpose of caulking the bends, has presented itself until our arrival here. At dusk in the evening we anchored half a mile from the west sandy point of Sweer's Island. This anchorage between Bentinck's Island and Sweers Island, though it may not be called a port, is yet almost equally well sheltered, and I named it Investigator's Road; it has the appearance of being exposed between N.N.W. and N.E.½N.; but the rocks from each shore occupy nearly one half of the space, and the water is too shallow in the remaining part to admit any surge to endanger a ship."

Cairns. Manoora. Named for Francis Robertson Ireland. He settled in Cairns in 1905. He became a general motor car dealer in 1931, founding a company that still exists under his name. He built the Municipal Library in 1936. The name was approved by the Cairns City Council on 7 December 1987

Source:Cairns City Council Road Index, 1997

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Irene Street

Cairns. Earlville/Kanimbla/Mooroobool. The original sub-division streets were named after female Christian names

Source:Cairns City Council Road Index, 1997

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Irene Taylor Bridge

Coen. Named for Irene Taylor, a former member of the Cook Shire Executive Committee & Advisory Body; Official of the cattlemen's Union. She was a resident of Coen & a descendant of the pioneering Armbrust family

Source:Cooktown Shire Library name list

Irvin Street

Gordonvale. Named after Wilson Irvin who settled in the area in 1898. he held the office of Director in the Mulgrave Mill Company for 27 years.

Atherton Tableland. Named after the birthplace of John Moffat, who was born at Newmilnes, on the Irvine River, Ayrshire, Scotland on 26 May 1841. He was a mining magnate and father of Irvinebank. He died on 28 June 1918. Originally called Gibbs' Camp after prospector Jimmy Gibbs who discovered tin here in 1881

Cairns. Collinson Creek, Edmonton area. Named by Thomas Swallow after his wife Isabel. On the McKinnon's Creek

Source:Collinson, J. More About Cairns. 2. Echoes of the Past, 1945, p. 89

Coordinates:17 1 S 145 45 E

Isabella Road

Cairns. Edmonton. Named after the wife of Thomas Swallow, owner of the Hambledon Plantation. Her name was Isabel Swallow

Coordinates:17 01 S 145 45 E

Ishmael Road

Cairns. Earlville. Named after William David Ishmael a councillor on the Mulgrave Shire from 1943-1951. The Ishmael family were cane farmers & owned the property adjoining this road

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 36

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Island Point

See Port Douglas

Islands of Direction

Great Barrier Reef, 24 km north-east of Cape Flattery. Named by Captain James Cook on 13 August 1770. After Cook found a passage through the reef from Lizard Island he wrote: "The three high Islands...I have called the Islands of direction because by them a safe passage may be found, even by strangers"

Great Barrier Reef, due east of Cape Direction. So named as a guide to the Bligh Boat Entrance which Captain William Bligh used on 29 May 1789 to enter the Great Barrier Reef. Named by Captain Bligh

Source:Gill, J.C.H. The Missing Coast, 1988, p. 109

Coordinates:12 51 S 143 36 E

Isle of Pisonia

Gulf of Carpentaria. Near Mornington Island. Named by Matthew Flinders of the Investigator on 3 December 1802. As per his diary entry for that day: "saw a small island two leagues further out, one of the three laid down in the old chart near Cape van Diemen; it is thickly covered with wood, principally of that softish, white kind, whence it obtained the name of Isle Pisonia." Pisonia grandis or bird-catcher tree, is a native of sub-tropical and tropical regions, growing to a height of 10 m with a spread of 4 m.

Source:http://mpec.sc.mahidol.ac.th/discaust/NORTH2.HTM

Isley Hills

West of Edmonton. Named after Sub-Inspector John B. Isley of the Native Mounted Police who was in the Cairns district from 1877 to the late 1880s

Cairns. Woree. A walking track beginning at Eden Close near Toogood Road & ending at Creek Close. Named after Ivan Evand, a pioneer cane farmer who lived & worked in the area at the turn of the century

Source:Cairns Sun 22 April 1998, p. 7

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Ivy Close

Cairns. Mooroobool. In an estate with street names of a floral theme

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 36

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Ixora Court

Cairns. Mooroobool. In an estate with street names of a floral theme

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 36

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Izatt Close

Cairns. Edge Hill. Named after the sub-divider, Sam Izatt, who was a fruit merchant, in approximately 1974

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 36

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Jacaranda Close

Cairns. Manunda. Named after jacaranda trees that grow in the area

Source:Cairns Historical Society Listing 1987

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Jacaranda Drive

Yungaburra. Named after a species of tree

Coordinates:17 16 S 145 35 E

Jacaranda Street

Cairns. Holloways Beach. Many street names in this suburb were named for a floral theme at the suggestion of Anne Edwards, a resident of the suburb from 1961 to the mid 1980s

Innisfail district, south of Silkwood. Railway siding named after a Palestine engagement in that town during World war I

Source:Martinuzzi, A. L. Places and after whom they are named. Aboriginal names and their meanings. Innisfail and District Historical Society. Vol. 7, 1991, p. 13

Jaggan

Atherton Tableland, on the Millaa Millaa Railway line. Aboriginal term, believed to be scrub thick with lawyer vines. It was originally called Dinjarraburra, which could have referred to a large basalt rock in the area.

Source:Martinuzzi, A. L. Places and after whom they are named. Aboriginal names and their meanings. Innisfail and District Historical Society. Vol. 7, 1991, p. 14

Jago Street

Babinda. Named after William Jago, who with his wife Martha (daughter of Thomas Henry Parry of Gordonvale) settled in Babinda in 1914 and worked in the Babinda Mill as a fitter. They had previously been hotel keepers at Mangana and O.K. He died on 12 March 1959 aged 79 years and Martha died 18 January 1961 aged 74 years.

Source:Mulgrave Shire Historical Society Bulletin October 1978

Coordinates:17 20 S 145 55 E

James Cook Drive

Cairns. Kewarra Beach. Named in memory of Captain James Cook who sailed past here in June 1770

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

James Street

Cairns. Cairns North/Manunda. Named after H. J. James who was president of the Cairns Chamber of Commerce, 1921-1922, and also Manager of Cummins and Campbell Ltd

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 36

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

James Street

Mareeba. Named on 10 June 1933 for James Downs, in memory of his death from appendicitis.

Cairns. Trinity Beach. Named for James (John) Jamieson, Proprietor (along with Dr Blair & W. Fehan) and manager of the Buchan Point Estate in the 1880s. This estate included the land where the suburb of Trinity Beach now is. The estate covered some 8 000 acres including 6 miles of beach frontage opposite Double Island.

Cape York. According to Jack it was named by Captain Cook in 1770 on p. 160 but on p. 220 he says it was probably named by Captain Phillip Parker King in 1821! According to Horden it was already named when King arrived here in 1821, & was probably named by Lieutenant Charles Jeffreys

Cairns. Mooroobool. In the Forum estate where street names had a predominantly Roman theme

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 37

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Japoonvale

Innisfail district, west of Silkwood. Aboriginal term, anglicised for Japun, a local tribe

Source:Martinuzzi, A. L. Places and after whom they are named. Aboriginal names and their meanings. Innisfail and District Historical Society. Vol. 7, 1991, p. 13

Jardine River

Cape York Peninsula. Named for Frank & Alexander Jardine, who led an expedition to Somerset in 1864/65 & discovered the river on 25 January 1865. They named it the Deception River because they had got it confused with the Escape River but the Government of the day, under Governor Sir George Bowen, decided it should be named in their honour. This is the same river that Carstensz, the Dutch navigator, named the Van Spult (Van Spoult) River & inlet on 13 May 1623 after the Governor of Ambon, Hermann van Sp(e)oult. The Jardine River mouth is traditionally known as Thayanhaku

One of the North Barnard Islands, Great Barrier Reef, north east of Silkwood. Named after one of the daughters of the Kent family, who looked after the lighthouse which opened on nearby Kent Island in 1919. The island is 58 metres high.

Source:Barnard Islands National Park. Draft Management Plan, 1998

Jessie's Tableland

Named by William Hann in August 1872

Source:Jack, Robert Logan. Northmost Australia, 1921, p. 389 & 514

Jesson Street

Ingham. Named for an Hinchinbrook Shire Councillor, C. Jesson

Source:Hinchinbrook Shire Council List

Coordinates:18 39 S 146 10 E

Jim Chapman Bridge

Gillies Highway over the Barron River near Yungaburra. Named after Atherton Mayor Jim Chapman

Source:Cairns Post 26 March 1998, p. 11

Joan Street

Cairns. Bungalow. Named after Joan Collins who was a sister of Alderman W. A. Collins & Mayor of Cairns for 22 years

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 37

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Jock's Lodge

South of Cardwell. Named by Dalrymple in 1863 either after Jock's Lodge, a hamlet outside Edinburgh or Jock, a bullock driver with him

Herberton. Probably named after John Newell of Jack & Newell Stores. He started out as a tin miner in Herberton in 1879 before opening up a small store with William Jack in Herberton. Eventually they had 27 stores in the district. He died in July 1932, aged 84 & was buried in the Herberton cemetery

Coordinates:17 23 S 145 23 E

John Winfield Bridge

Malanda. Bridge across the Johnstone River between Malanda & Topaz. Named in 1940 for John Gibney Winfield (1885-1974), Chairman of the Eacham Shire Council, 1935-1964

Source:Malanda in the Shadow of Bartle Frere, 1995, p. 32 & 35 & 69

Johnson Street

Cairns. Yorkeys Knob. Named for Frank Johnson, who was the licensee of the hotel there until 1935

Mossman. Probably named after William Samuel Johnston or his brother John Dorrens Johnston, who purchased land in the area in 1882. William's property was named Drumsara after his home in Northern Ireland. John Johnstone arrived in the area in 1884.

Originally named Gladys River by Captain Moresby. Renamed the Johnstone River, after Sub-Inspector Robert Johnstone who explored the river early in 1873, by George Dalrymple in 1873. The river was known on maps before 1872 as the Shoal Rivulet. In 1882 Christie Palmerston named the North Johnstone River the Katie River after a friend in Melbourne but this name was never widely used

Cairns. Westcourt. Runs through what was once Jone's dairy and pig farm during the 1920s and 1930s. The farm was on the northern side of Mulgrave Road

Source:Cairns Historical Society Bulletin no. 65, July 1964

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Jorgenson Range

Einsleigh District. Named by the Jardine brothers who passed this way on 15 October 1864

Source:Jack, Robert Logan. Northmost Australia, 1921, p. 293

Coordinates:18 2 S

Joseph Banks Close

Cairns. Kewarra Beach. Paradise Palms Golf Estate. Named after the botanist Joseph Banks who was with Captain James Cook when the Endeavour sailed past Cairns in June 1770

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Joyces

Cape York Peninsula. A camp on Trevathan Creek. Named in 1891 for Mr. Joyce, operator of the post office

Source:Cooktown Shire Library name list

Jubilee Street

Cairns. Parramatta Park. Named in honour of the Cairns 1926 Jubilee

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 37

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Jubilee Street

Cairns. Edmonton. Named in honour of the Cairns 1926 Jubilee

Source:Cairns City Council Road Index, 1997

Coordinates:17 01 S 145 45 E

Julatten

Aboriginal word meaning small creek

Source:Cairns Historical Society Bulletin no. 97, April 1967

Julian Close

Cairns. Mooroobool. Named after Roman themes. Julian was a Roman Emperor

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 37

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

The Junction

West of Herberton. So named because this tin mining town was at the junction of the Dry & Wild Rivers

Source:Hooper, Colin. Angor to Zillmanton, 1993, p. 161

Coordinates:17 33 S 145 18 E

Junction Point

See Innisfail

Jungara

Cairns railway. Redlynch. Aboriginal name meaning bean tree

Source:Cairns Historical Society Bulletin no. 97, April 1967

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Juno Close

Cairns. Mooroobool. Named for a Roman theme

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 37

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Jurs Gap

Innisfail District. Named after Surveyor Martin Jurs

Source:Jones, Dorothy. Hurricane Lamps & Blue Umbrellas, p. 388

K tree

Innisfail District. A surveyor's marking, marked by W. J. Callendar, who was working in the area in the 1890s

Source:Jones, Dorothy. Hurricane Lamps & Blue Umbrellas, p. 388

Kaban

Atherton Tableland, north of Tumoulin. Railway station & mining settlement. Aboriginal word, meaning the country of the flying squirrel. The settlement was originally known as Evelyn & the town was surveyed on 13 November 1910 by Tindal Porter

Cairns Suburb. Originally called Lower Crossing and then Barronville because it was situated on the Barron River. People settled here from late 1876, when it was a packers camp known as Lower Crossing. This was the first permanent packers camp in the area. It continued as a camp even when Smithfield was established on the opposite bank of the Barron River in 1877. The settlement was only officially recognised in 1887 and grew rapidly from May that year when it became the headquarters for John Robb's railway construction project covering the second or range section of the Cairns to Kuranda railway. Known briefly as Barronville, it was then suggested by Archibald Meston, that the name be changed to Kamerunga. Meston had owned the property Cambanora in the area since 1883. It has been suggested that Kamerunga was the Aboriginal name for Barron Falls, although it was originally described as merely the Aboriginal name for the locality. Benfer concurs that the word Kamerunga was in fact the Aboriginal name for the area. The township faded away after 1890, to later become a suburb of Cairns

Cairns. Freshwater/Stratford. Named after the township of Kamerunga. So called because it was the road to Kamerunga from Stratford & Freshwater. The road was gazetted in 1936. Prior to 1937 it was known as the Cairns - Double Island (Trinity Beach) Road & the Cairns - Port Douglas Road.

Great Barrier Reef, off the Piper Islands, Temple Bay. Named by Lieutenant Charles Jeffries of the Kangaroo in 1815 after his ship, which struck the shoal.

Source:Nicholson, Ian. Via Torres Strait, 1996, p. 50

Coordinates:12 13 S 143 13 E

Kanimbla

Cairns. Suburb. After the MV Kanimbla (10 985 tons), an Adelaide steamship vessel which regularly sailed to Cairns from Southern Ports. She was built in Belfast in 1936 & was the last large passenger ship built specifically for Australian owners. She carried 400 passengers & during the war was an armed merchant cruiser & an infantry landing ship. She continued civilian voyages in 1950. She was sold in 1961 & broken up in 1974.

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 38

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kansas Close

Cairns. White Rock. Named after the American State. The name was approved on 21 November 1988

Source:Cairns City Council file no 52105

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Karakatoa Close

Cairns. Smithfield Heights. Named after an Indonesian volcano. Name approved on 19 December 1988

Source:Cairns City Council file no 52105

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Karboota Street

Innisfail. Named after one of the small ships which called into the Johnstone River

Innisfail District. Named as the result of a quibble over the ownership of the nearby land by Chapman and Perrier

Source:Jones, Dorothy. Hurricane Lamps & Blue Umbrellas, p. 388

Kehl Street

Ingham. Named for an Hinchinbrook Shire Councillor, A.W.S. Kehl

Source:Hinchinbrook Shire Council List

Coordinates:18 39 S 146 10 E

Keirle Avenue

Cairns. Whitifield. Named after C. Keirle, who was an Alderman of the Cairns City Council, 1924-1930 and a prominent businessman

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 39

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Keith Street

Cairns. Manoora. Named after the caretaker at Green Island in 1910

Source:Cairns City Council Road Index, 1997

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Keller Close

Cairns. Whitfield. Named after Arthur Keller, a Cairns Alderman

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 39

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kelly's Falls

Atherton Tableland, Mareeba District. Named after Pioneer Mick Kelly

Source:Cummins & Campbell's Monthly Magazine March 1929, p. 75

Kelly Street

Cairns. Earlville. Probably named after the Kelly brothers, Jack & Mick, who operated a road construction company in the 1950s. It is possible, but unlikely, that it may have been named after R. H. Kelly, early settler and owner of Kelly's shoe store and also ladies and men’s wear

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 39

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kelly Street

Mareeba. Named circa 1963 after the Kelly family. Thomas Kelly came to Mareeba in the 1890s

Atherton. Named after William B. Kelly, who opened a store at Prior's Pocket (later Atherton) in 1882. He was the first Chairman of the Tinaroo Divisional Board & purchased the first block of land in Atherton in 1886

Great Barrier Reef, part of the Slasher group of reefs. Named after the stranding of the British troopship Kelso here in June 1842

Source:Nicholson, Ian. Via Torres Strait, 1996, p. 144

Coordinates:18 33 S 147 13 E

Kendall River

Cape York. Named on 31 December 1864 by the Jardine Brothers after a friend of surveyor Archibald Richardson. Richardson was the surveyor on the Jardine Expedition & may have named the River himself. Originally named Kendall Creek. The Kendall River of today was named by John T. Embley in 1884 as he believed it to be the Kendall Creek named by the Jardine brothers. Jack is not convinced that they are the same rivers. He believes the Sinclair Creek is actually the creek that the Jardines named as Kendall Creek

Cardwell, near the post office. Named after Edmund Kennedy, whose expedition to Cape York in 1848 left from the area. It was unveiled on 23 May 1848, to commemorate the centenary of the Kennedy Expedition

Mission Beach. Named after Edmund Kennedy who in 1848 led an expedition to Cape York in which he perished.

Coordinates:17 35 S 146 06 E

Kennedy Highway

Cairns to Mareeba. Named after Edmund Besley Kennedy, ill-fated explorer of the 1848 expedition to Cape York

Kennedy Hill

Cape York Peninsula, Carron Range. 439 metres (1 440 feet) high. Named by the officers of the surveying ship Paluma, 1890. Named for Edmund Kennedy, who led an ill-fated expedition to Cape York in 1848

Source:Jack, Robert Logan. Northmost Australia, 1921, p. 224 & 692

Kennedy Inlet

Named after explorer Edmund Kennedy

Source:Liddell, Rodney. Cape York: The Savage Frontier, p. 271

Kennedy Memorial Bridge

Bridge over the Meunga Creek, near Cardwell. Named after Edmund Kennedy, whose expedition to Cape York in 1848 left from the area. It was opened on 22 May 1848, to commemorate the centenary of the Kennedy Expedition

North of Cardwell. The township was designed in 1941 by Surveyor Hein and was named after Edmund Kennedy who began his 1848 expedition in the district. The railway siding situated here is also named after Kennedy

Cairns. Portsmith. Named after James Kenny, early settler and local sawmill proprietor in about 1882. He was also Chairman of the Cairns Divisional Board and was responsible for the first footpaths in Cairns, made with a layer of mangrove mud spread over the sand and then covered with a layer of sawdust. This was called Kenny's mixture. This street used to lead to Malay Town, situated amongst the mangroves in a big bend of the Alligator Creek. The area has now been cleared and reclaimed and is occupied by oil tanks

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 39

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kent Island

One of the North Barnard Islands, Great Barrier Reef, north east of Silkwood. Named after the Kent family, who looked after the lighthouse which opened here in 1919. The island is 95 metres high

Source:Barnard Islands National Park. Draft Management Plan, 1998

Coordinates:17 41 S 146 11 E

Kerr Islet

Torres Strait. Almost certainly named after Captain George Kerr, a man with many years experience as a master of Queensland Government steamers in the Torres Strait in the second half of the 19th century.

Source:Foley, John C.H. Reef Pilots, 1982, p. 40

Coordinates:9 37 S 141 34 E

Kerr Point

Gulf of Carpentaria. Almost certainly named after Captain George Kerr, a man with many years experience as a master of Queensland Government steamers in the Torres Strait in the second half of the 19th century.

Source:Foley, John C.H. Reef Pilots, 1982, p. 40

Coordinates:11 39 S 141 49 E

Kerryanne Close

Cairns. Smithfield Heights. Streets in this subdivision were named after girl's names.

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kerwin Street

Cairns. City. Named after Kerwin, a health officer in 1911

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 39

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kestrel Street

Cairns. Woree. Named after a bird.

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kevin Street

Cairns. Whitfield. Name suggested by W. A. Collins, Kevin being the owner of the property

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 39

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kidston Street

Cairns. Bungalow. Named after W. Kidston, a Premier of Queensland, 1906-1907 and 1908-1911

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 40

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kiernan Street

Cairns. Manunda. Named after Alderman George Kiernan, 1933-1939 and 1940-1943

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 40

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kieta Close

Cairns. Trinity Beach. Streets in this subdivision are named for a Papua New Guinea theme. Kieta is a town in PNG

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Killara Place

Weipa. Aboriginal word meaning permanent

Source:Hibberd Library list

Coordinates:12 40 S 141 57 E

Kilpatrick Street

Mareeba. Named circa 1938 for Thomas John Kilpatrick, owner of Southedge Station & a pioneer

Hinchinbrook Island area. Known after Philip Parker King of the Mermaid who in 1819 sailed this way

Source:Horden, Marsden. King of the Australian Coast, 1997, p. 168

King Street

Babinda. Named after Patrick and Eileen King who came to Babinda from Kuranda in 1914. They owned a boarding house near the railway station which was destroyed by the 1918 cyclone. Patrick King later worked at the Babinda Mill

Source:Mulgrave Shire Historical Society Bulletin October 1978

Coordinates:17 20 S 145 55 E

Kingsborough

Hodgkinson Goldfield town. The official name was Kingston but Kingsborough was the popular usage & eventually won out. It was also known as Kingsboro. Named in honour of Henry Edgar King, Secretary for Public Works & Mines from November 1874 to May 1876 & who had visited the Palmer River goldfields early in 1874. Surveyed on 1 May 1880 by Thomas Horan although the first hotel was operating as early as 1876 (Not to be confused with the town of the same name at Oakey Creek on the Palmer Goldfield between 1874-1876, which was probably also named after Henry Edgar King)

Cairns. Mooroobool. Named after Richard Ash Kingsford (1821-1902), who arrived in Cairns in 1882 & was an Alderman at the first meeting of the Municipal Council held on 18 July 1885. At this meeting he was elected the first Mayor of Cairns, a post he held till 1886 and he continued as an Alderman until 1890. He was President of the Cairns School of Arts. This street led to the House on the hill, which was built by him and burned down in 1993. He is buried in the McLeod Street Cemetery. He was the MLA for Cairns in 1888 & was a draper & sugar planter, having purchased the Hambledon Sugar Estate in 1896. Prior to his arrival in Cairns he was the Member of Parliament for South Brisbane as well as being a mayor of Brisbane. He died on 2 January 1902, aged 80

Cairns. Brinsmead. Named after Joseph Kipling, a nephew of the famous author Rudyard Kipling, who selected 80 acres on the west bank of Davidson (later Freshwater Creek) on 4 November 1879. He installed a rice mill here.

Cairns. Woree. Streets in this part of Woree are named after girl's Christian names.

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kitava Street

Cairns. Trinity Beach. Streets in this subdivision are named for a Papua New Guinea theme. Kitava Island is a part PNG

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kite Close

Cairns. Woree. Named after a bird. The name was approved on 17 October 1988

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kiwain Point

Prince of Wales Island, Torres Strait. Traditionally named for the warrior Kiwain, who was killed by the legendary Muralag hero Waiben. The rocky point is his body, turned to stone. From the time of white settlement until recently it was known as Heath Point after Port master of Queensland at the time, Captain George P. Heath. It was Heath who selected the site for the Thursday Island township. Now officially known as Bluefish Point

Source:Singe, John. Among Islands, 1993, p. 3

Kjellberg Road

Atherton Tableland, Millaa Millaa district. Named after Ernst Edmund Julius Kjellberg, (1979-1968), who ran a sanatorium at the end of the road, called Beachview. He practiced from the 1920s to the mid 1950s

Babinda. Named after Dr. George Knowles, medical doctor and Superintendent of the Cairns District Hospital from about 1910-1913, who at one time also owned a large tract of cane land in the Babinda area

Source:Mulgrave Shire Historical Society Bulletin, October 1978

Coordinates:17 20 S 145 55 E

Knowles Street

Cairns. Whitfield. Named after Dr. George Knowles, a medical doctor in Cairns from about 1900 onwards. He succeeded Dr. Edward Koch as Superintendent of the cairns District Hospital.

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 41

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Koch Street

Cairns. Manunda/Mooroobool. Named after Dr. Edward Albert Koch, noted pioneer medical doctor in Cairns. Born in Altona, Holstein, Germany on 3 August 1843, he arrived in Cairns in 1884 as the first Government Health Officer. He married Ruth Banks in Cairns on 15 November 1890. He died on 28 June 1901 aged 57 and is buried in the McLeod Street Cemetery alongside his wife Ruth, who died on 3 February 1914, aged 58. There is a monument to him in Anzac Park, which was originally in the middle of the intersection of Abbott and Spence Streets, opposite the Post Office. It was unveiled by the Queensland Governor, Sir Herbert Chemside on 13 June 1903, on the occasion of Koch's funeral, which was the first military funeral in the town. The memorial was moved to Anzac Park in the 1970s and in the mid 1990s was moved a short distance away to the new Casino gardens

Source:Brown, V. North Queensland Place Names Origins, 1993, p. 41

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Koedal Bupur

Boigu. Means Crocodile Nose & is so called because the shape of the land resembles a crocodile's nose. The village on Boigu Island is sited around here

Source:Teske, Travis. Boigu: Island of Torres Strait, 198-, p. 12

Kokialah Creek

Western Cape York Peninsula. Name for the local Aboriginal People. Named by John T. Embley in 1885-6

Source:Jack, Robert Logan. Northmost Australia, 1921, p. 653

Kokoda Street

Cairns. Trinity Beach. Streets in this subdivision are named for a Papua New Guinea theme. Kokoda is a town in PNG

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kokopo Close

Cairns. Trinity Beach. Streets in this subdivision are named for a Papua New Guinea theme. Kokopo is a town in PNG

West of Tully. Originally called Culpa Pocket. Koombooloomba is the Aboriginal name for the area, meaning Place of Gold. Much of Culpa Pocket is now covered by the waters of Koombooloomba Dam. According to Hooper Koombooloomba comes from the Aboriginal word Koombool, meaning native woman. The name was bestowed by Mike O'Leary. Gold was found here in 1890

Atherton Tableland. Originally known as Dinner Pocket. So named because it was a forest pocket in the scrub much in favour by the early surveyors as a mid-day camp. The word Kowrowa is claimed to be the name of that part of the Barron River

Babinda District, on the slopes of Mount Bartle Frere. This was the camp for the Babinda diggings on the Mulgrave Goldfield. Named after Bill Kraft, who with Jack Wilkie found gold here in late 1936 28-Oct-1997

Babinda District, on the slopes of Mount Bartle Frere. Named after Bill Kraft, who found gold here in late 1936

Source:Cairns Historical Society Bulletin no. 304, June 1985

Krait Street

Cairns. Trinity Park. Streets in this subdivision were named after ships. The Krait was a World War II Commando boat, famous for carrying out a sabotage raid in Singapore Harbour in August 1943 under the command of Z force, which occupied the House on the Hill in Cairns during World War II

Yungaburra District. Aboriginal name meaning fig tree. Originally known as Ball Pocket, but the name was changed when the railway came. Local residents asked that the town be called Coolara, but this was rejected as too much like another station. The word Coolara was a s close as the European residents could get to the word used by the local Aborigines to refer to the area where a great many fig trees grew

Atherton Tableland. Originally known as Middle Crossing because this was the spot where the Barron River was crossed on the second occasion by the track from Smithfield to the Hinterland. The name Kurunda was suggested by surveyor G.D. Edwards, but it was submitted by surveyor Thomas Behan as Kuranda. Apparently it is an Aboriginal word from the Burnett River district where Edwards spent many years. The Djabugay name at this time for the Kuranda district was Oonbij

Kuranda. So named because it passes through an elevated part of Kuranda

Coordinates:16 49 S 145 38 E

Kureen

Atherton Tableland. According to Martinuzzi it is an Aboriginal term, silky oak. However, Mrs Robina Angus (Nee Heale) contends that Ted Heale, who farmed in the area, requested that it be named Coreen, the Aboriginal name for Little Creek. However since there was already a town of this name the spelling was altered to Kureen

Western Cape York Peninsula. Aboriginal name for the box tree. Named by John T. Embley in 1885-6

Source:Jack, Robert Logan. Northmost Australia, 1921, p. 653

Kurrajong Close

Mission Beach. Named after a species of bird

Coordinates:17 35 S 146 06 E

Kurrajong Street

Cairns. Earlville. Named after the Kurrajong tree

Source:Cairns Historical Society Listing 1987

Coordinates:16 55 S 145 46 E

Kurrimine

Innisfail district, east of Silkwood. Originally called Murdering Point because Sub-Inspector Johnstone of the Native Mounted Police in Cardwell was alerted by the ship Liverpool which had found there the bodies of two men, apparently Matthew Taylor and E. Melson from the ship Riser in August 1878. They had been killed by Aborigines. Changed to Kurrimine, which is an Aboriginal term meaning sunrise, in the late 1950s

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